Theotônio Pauliquevis
Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
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About
Theotônio Pauliquevis is an atmospheric scientist whose work centers on the aerosol and water-vapor dynamics of the Amazon Basin. His research is foundational to understanding how the world’s largest rainforest interacts with the atmosphere, particularly through long-term, ground-based remote sensing. Pauliquevis’s major contribution is the establishment and operation of a permanent UV Raman lidar station in the central Amazon, a first-of-its-kind facility that began continuous, automated measurements in 2011. This station, described in his most-cited paper (29 citations), provides critical, high-resolution profiles of aerosols and water vapor, enabling studies that bridge weather and climate timescales. He further refines regional data quality by developing on-site calibration methods for multi-filter rotating shadow-band radiometers, as demonstrated in his 2019 work, which is vital for accurate aerosol optical depth retrievals in pristine forest conditions. By creating these essential datasets and calibration protocols, Pauliquevis has become a key figure in the Amazonian atmospheric monitoring community, providing the observational backbone for research on aerosol-cloud interactions, biomass burning impacts, and the rainforest’s role in the global climate system.
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